eachtradh

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Middle Irish echtrad, from Old Irish echtra (“tale, narrative, history”), from echtar (“without, outside”), from Proto-Celtic *exteros. Doublet of eachdraidh. Cognate with Irish eachtra (“adventure”). Compare Welsh eithr (“except, beyond”), Latin exter (“outer”).

Noun

eachtradh m (genitive singular eachtraidh, plural eachtraidhean)

1. adventure

Synonyms

• driod-fhortan

Further reading

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “echtra”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language